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DIAMOND EYES LETS LOOSE
‘It’s like
I’m POSS
E SSED
ing’
or someth

ooking at Rebecca in her ‘off stage mode’ there is a clear

comparison. Today as we meet in Starbucks of Sheffields Words: Emily Spokes

L City centre our girls hometown, she seems nervous and

on edge about the questions I ask. ‘I have a nervous dis-
posisiton’ she begins with saying as if herself the warning
label. ‘When I’m onstage a euphoria takes over me and I can’t help
what I do, it’s like I’m possessed or something but if I’m honest I
Pictures Emily Spokes

would hang out and ‘write poetry’ apprently but I actually really like
their Hot Chocolates and the atmosphere, the atmosphere here is
pretty cool. When I was about 13-16 everyone wrote me off as a
love it’. As Rebecca states people used to ‘take the piss’ but now
waster and that I wouldn’t really amount to anything well except my
whos laughing with two Brit Award nominations under her belt and a
music teacher Mr Botley, yeah he must have seen something in me I
Kerrang Award for ‘Best Upcoming Act’. “I went to a really conform-
was one of those kids yousee in movies that the teacher just sees
ist school, everyone dressed the same and anyone different was
something and tries to get them through school or something. Not that
shunned luckily I wasnt the only person to be ‘shunned’ from the
I wasn’t smart, I just wasn#t bothered, I thought I could go straight on
cliques, the rest of the band were like me, we were considered the
tour and make money from that, I was wrong I went straight on tour
‘goths’ of the school. With work beginning on their her new album
after I finished school and I couldn’t handle it, so I enrolled in college
Rebecca decided to take a new path in life- ‘I’m drug free now’ and
and did music, music tech and media and from then I went to univer-
smile from ear to ear as she states this. “I’ve decided tobe com-
sity to study music which turned out to be an amazing opportunity
pletely straight edge and at the moment its going really well, I’ve
and now I help mix the albums and I mainly do the samples for the al-
jumped into this album head first and I’m gonna give it everything
bums and while I was at uni I got to work on records for people like
i’ve got, I’ve got a clear head now and I think it’s working to my ad-
Bring Me The Horizon and even Artic Monkeys”, a couple of the finest
vantage, you hear about all the ex alchoholic that claim to see all
acts to leave Steel City to the mainstream. Growing up Rebecca a.k.a
the shit thats in the world due to sobriety and if I’m honest I’ve eg-
Diamond Eyes listened to all sorts of music under the beliefe of her
nored all the ‘shit’ in the world and concentrated on the things which
parents that this would make her more rounded and cultural, “yeah I
makes life worth living” love you may be thinking but on the contrary
listened to all sorts growing up but as I reached puberty and started
“this album is gonna be about hate, the fact that people can’t be
going to comprehensive school and I started hanging out with people
bothered to stop feeling sorry for themselves and claim about how
who listened to metal, I was listening to that primarily but I still like all
much the world sucks and how everyone is against them, about
sorts of music, I grew up listening to all my parents old Beatles
how these different sub cultures kids choose to take and how the
records and stuff like that, Johnny Cash- the original punk rocker, I
kids hate people who aren’t the same. I always used to hang out in
started learning to play guitar with his songs.
Starbucks when I was a teenager, it’s where all the ‘emotional’ kids